I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Walking with Murphythrough the bone-freezing chilltoward the bus stop, I start shivering.And somehow, when he slips his arm around meto warm me up, it feels right.Righter than anything ever has.

You will never become a hero if you keep waiting for someone else to bring a cape for you.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.